"California is prepared to... pay... an estimated $25,000 each."<p>What a joke. Compensation for state forced sterilization should be orders of magnitude greater than that.<p>edit:
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How have these cases not gone to the supreme court? I understand these people might be of little means, but surely some org like the ACLU could represent the case.
I think these people should absolutely be compensated, but I cannot help but notice one thing. CA will use my tax money to compensate them. In this case, I don't mind, because it's the right thing to do. But I was obviously never a part of any of these decisions, I obviously have never voted for people who did this stupid shit, etc etc. Yet I end up paying for it. That seems to be a pretty big problem with the decision making process then. I would like to hold the fuckers who wasted 2.26 trillion dollars, ~3000 American lives and countless local lives over 20 years to hand Afghanistan from Taliban back to Taliban, achieving absolutely nothing. But who do you hold accountable for it? Using the democratic process, you punish Bush by voting him out? Well, he's long gone. Most of those fuckers are enjoying their retirement, they will never be held accountable for any of this, yet here we are paying for their insane decisions.
In Virginia c. 1956, my grandmother was supposed to have an appendectomy. The Navy surgeon did this and also performed a radical hysterectomy (involuntary sterilization). It was said the surgeon was drunk, but it could've been a purposeful policy back then too.
Forced sterilization is horrible. Eugenics is a sad 'replacement' for widespread education and a fair society.<p>-adopted orphan who grew up in an intelligent house full of books and is seemingly considered above average in most metrics.